Category Archives: Shadow Initiative

In our sixth and final episode of The Shadow Initiative, the party coordinates with the Resistance to infiltrate ECCO Base and confront the evil A.I… and a plot that threatens not just the realm of Shadoc, but everything that touches The Strange… This is our first experience with The Strange RPG from Monte Cook Games, played online over Roll20.

In our fifth episode of The Shadow Initiative, the party makes contact with the Resistance and begins formulating a plan to take down the evil A.I. that rules the realm of Shadoc… This is our first experience with The Strange RPG from Monte Cook Games, played online over Roll20.

In our fourth episode of The Shadow Initiative, the party dodges enemy soldiers and an invisible monster to reach a Resistance safe house. While preparing to return to Earth, however, they soon uncover an ominous truth about the intelligence that rules this realm… A truth that could reach beyond this world and threaten everything that matters to them. This is our first experience with The Strange RPG from Monte Cook Games, played online over Roll20.

In our third episode of The Shadow Initiative, the party flees from the local soldiers who descended upon their position and find themselves rescued by another agent of Mr. Silver’s employer, Casey Fletcher. As they attempt to dig more information out of their new comrade regarding this new world and their adventure thus far, they also start hunting for a safe place to recuperate and plan their next move: a way home… This is our first experience with The Strange RPG from Monte Cook Games, played online over Roll20.

In our second episode of The Shadow Initiative, the party finds themselves taken into custody by mysterious government agents and shoved into separate interrogation rooms. Subdued just after landing, they defiantly hold their peace until an opportunity for escape presents itself… in a way none of them could ever have anticipated. This is our first experience with The Strange RPG from Monte Cook Games, played online over Roll20. Note: A brief break in the action remains unedited in the midst of the session as the players discuss their first translation to a new recursion. I elected to keep this in to provide context for the game while editing out any unnecessary tangents.

In our very first episode of The Shadow Initiative, Miles Silver, a recruiting specialist for the mysterious Crane Organization, boards a plane in Zurich on the heels of his latest acquisition, world-renowned mathematician Harold Jacobs. Little does he know that he will soon be required to put his composure to the test and locate other suitable candidates capable of handling extraordinary situations when the plane somehow slides into another dimension and begins falling apart around them… This is our first experience with The Strange RPG from Monte Cook Games, played online over Roll20.

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The Metagamers Anonymous Actual Play Series follows the virtual tabletop escapades of a group of listeners and fans in Erik's regular online gaming sessions played over Google Hangouts. The first series is a zombie apocalypse scenario played in the Savage Worlds system, entitled Project Z. Stay tuned for future episodes which will pursue our intrepid adventurers into other games and genres, including the recently launched Savage Worlds fantasy campaign The Obsidian Crown.